US Servers Downtime

[fuser]

I missed it with the patcher (stupid vista not creating icons).

All US servers are going out 9PM GMT for 5hours for launch preparations.

[schild]

:(

[Signe]

Funcom owes me most of five bucks so far.

[Evildrider]

Ghey 

[sam, an eggplant]

Hopefully they'll schedule downtime on the NJ servers appropriately for US customers post-launch.

[stray]

Oh sweet. This whole time I thought today was launch. I have to completely wipe and partition my puter just to play this game... So I thought I was missing out. 

[Falconeer]

They just gave us Yurops a 3 hours timeout too. Honestly, I needed it. But that doesn't mean I am OK with it.

[Montague]

I just got a day off with pay approved from work. Getting some pizza and drinks ready for 8 PM here. (12AM Eastern).

I'm anticipating 3 hours of server crashes and queues, emergency downtime with no ETA, followed by my ending up facedown snoring in a pizza box, my face slathered with the sauce of pure fail.

I know Funcom has had a good launch so far but never underestimate my ability to fuck up a good thing just by showing up.

[schild]

I just got a day off with pay approved from work. Getting some pizza and drinks ready for 8 PM here. (12AM Eastern).

I'm anticipating 3 hours of server crashes and queues, emergency downtime with no ETA, followed by my ending up facedown snoring in a pizza box, my face slathered with the sauce of pure fail.

I know Funcom has had a good launch so far but never underestimate my ability to fuck up a good thing just by showing up.

Playing on Zug with us?

[Montague]

I just got a day off with pay approved from work. Getting some pizza and drinks ready for 8 PM here. (12AM Eastern).

I'm anticipating 3 hours of server crashes and queues, emergency downtime with no ETA, followed by my ending up facedown snoring in a pizza box, my face slathered with the sauce of pure fail.

I know Funcom has had a good launch so far but never underestimate my ability to fuck up a good thing just by showing up.

Playing on Zug with us?

No, I'm playing with the filthy arpeers of my guild on Wiccana. Might make an alt on Zug though to finally meet y'all.

[Signe]

Oh here goes Ebonlore again!

1     Damelon     Inner Council     80     Priest of Mitra     0.00     0.00     0.00     0     
2    Kioski    Inner Council    80    Ranger    0.00    0.00    0.00    0    
3    Axem    Guild Leader    80    Guardian    0.00    0.00    0.00    0    
4    Vipin    Inner Council    80    Demonologist    0.00    0.00    0.00    0    
5    Mance    Inner Council    80    Ranger    0.00    0.00    0.00    0    
6    Mistical    Inner Council    80    Demonologist    0.00    0.00    0.00    0    

The 80 is the level.  There are rumblings and rumours of an exploit to 80.  Funcom is deleting the threads pretty quickly and there were some pics (though today that's not proof) but I didn't get one before they deleted it.  I'm sure they have a money exploit by now, too.  It's what they do best.

Ebondorks

[Draegan]

Ebonlore is on my server.  I sighed a little bit when I saw them.  Oh well, I steered my guild from Deathwisper to Tyranny and it was too late to move.

I hope they all get banned, fuckers.

[ShenMolo]

Downtime extended 2 hours per the patch message, now its Midnight EST before they come back.

[schild]

Well then.

Sigh.

[Signe]

I'll probably be asleep!

[ShenMolo]

I'm gonna blow off work tomorrow. The prerogative of a sales manager who is well over his budget YTD. 

Opening days for quality MMO's are few and far between and should be enjoyed!

[Nija]

Those guys aren't exploiting. They love all the attention they get, though.

They just level fast, knowing where to go and being brainless enough to actually buy the game.

[Signe]

Hey!  I bought the game, too.  You just called me brainless!   

[Nerf]

Heh, I know all of those people, I played vangaurd with them, hell, Mance was in my static XP group, we played together 16+ hours a day from launch on.

They're all filthy exploiters, theres no way thats legit.

Edit: Didn't you quit sometime in the beta and have just been trolling AoC Nija?  I could've sworn I read a post where you said you had no intention of playing any MMO recently.

[Nija]

I deleted the client last week.

Correct, I'm not paying for another diku. I like watching the "new shiny" turn into "wait, this is the same terrible shit I've been playing for 8 years" effect of new game launches.


Carry on.

[Signe]

Darn.  I thought you had come back to this thread to tell me I had a brain. 

Also - is this the first time an MMO has had maxed out characters before it's been launched?  Just askin'....

[Nija]

Darn.  I thought you had come back to this thread to tell me I had a brain.

You'll know what I'm talking about soon enough. Have fun in FotD.

[Signe]

It's rare that games last me more than a couple of months or so.  It's likely that I'll completely miss what you're talking about because by the time I should find out, I'll have moved on. 

Did that make sense?  Or did I just confirm the brain thing.   

[Lantyssa]

No, I'm playing with the filthy arpeers of my guild on Wiccana. Might make an alt on Zug though to finally meet y'all.

I might see you then.  I'm going to join my roomie and I think his DAoC guild is going to Wiccana.

Playing on Zug with us?

I might make an alt or two and join you guys.  I don't like splitting my characters across servers, but it would be fun.  It might be nice to have a character I'm tempted to twink, too.  I'll post in the appropriate thread once I have a character there.

[stray]

Heh, I'm pretty sure that I'll probably start sounding like Nija sooner or later. I'm a fan of the books though (even if there's been a lot of liberty taken with them). I might stick around longer than the usual mmo just because of that.

[schild]

Stray, Nija just sounds butthurt and as far as I know, he hasn't played since the last few rounds of patches. In addition, he's a griefy pvping min/maxer. Much love Nija, but let's put that shit on the table if you're gonna bitch and moan about imba and shit.

[rattran]

Sure, in a month we'll be bitching that it's more of the same.

But it means we're having fun for a month.

[Engels]

I was just checking the official forums for downtime news and noticed this:

Welcome, Engels.
You last visited: January 1st, 1970

[dannyBstyle]

retro

[Signe]

You can patch.

[Vanifae]

Haha they just extended it another hour.

[Signe]

It is comedy!

[rattran]

It's becoming Funcomtastic!

So, for the EA stuff, how many hours was it actually up for?

[Montague]

  for the timely forum crash.

Do they REALLY think they're fooling anyone?

[Vanifae]

There have been some minor issues coming up during the final tests. To make sure everything works as intended and to be able to provide the best possible performance we need to extend the downtime of the game servers by another hour.

I really like that eloquent wording...